Battle of Shilou

The Battle of Shilou was a battle of the Second Sino-Japanese War which was fought between the Imperial Japanese Army and the Chinese Red Army on the Shanxi-Shaanxi border in August of 1937. The Japanese army, which had been rigorously drilled for years, deployed three armored divisions on the battlefield and kept two in reserve, facing an infantry regiment and a headquarters unit. The Chinese communists were hoplessly outmatched, and they were defeated in one of their first notable clashes with the Japanese during the war.